On this
day in 1618 Walter Raleigh was beheaded on the pretext of treason, in reality it
was to appease the Spanish who were after revenge after all the privateering and
such like Raleigh and his cousins Drake and Grenville and their buddy Hawkins
had engaged in.
And now
the news:
A
factually inaccurate reconstruction of Raleigh's life (the ending is ace though)
:
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